Kingston - I.O.D.E. Cenotaph

 

Location:  Frontenac County   N 44 13.342  076 29.480
On the south side of King Street, at George Street, beside the Murney Tower.
 

Kingston has a long and proud military history, perhaps more so than any city in Canada.  After the Great War, the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire commissioned this wonderful cenotaph to honour the brave men and women of Kingston who gave their lives in the war.  It was erected in 1925, to great fanfare and great thanks for the sacrifices made.
Later the dates of the Second World War and Korea where added to the memorial, which proudly stands in the shadow of the impressive Murney Tower.


Marker text:
Front:
TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PROUD
AND LOVING
MEMORY OF
THOSE KINGSTON
MEN AND WOMEN
WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR

THIER NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE
1914 - 1918

W W II
1939 - 1945

KOREA
1950 - 1953
 

Rear:
THIS CROSS
IS SET UP BY
THE KINGSTON
CHAPTERS OF THE
IMPERIAL ORDER
OF THE DAUGHTERS
OF THE EMPIRE

DEDICATED
MAY 17  1925